PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1889-90.) 



November 7th, 1889. 



William Carrutuers, F.R.S., Presideut, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



A. J. Campbell, Esq., and Thomas Scott, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Mr. H. Veitch and the Eev. George Henslow exhibited a 

 large series of East-Indian hybrid Rhododendrons, on which 

 Mr. Henslow made some interesting remarks on the results of 

 cross-fertilization as regards alteration of both colour and form. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited some new British Marine Algae, 

 and described their habitat and relationship to well-known forms. 



Dr. St. George Mivart exhibited a drawing by a Surgeon 

 consulted a-s to amputation of a tail-like process in the human 

 subject, being a prolongation o^ the coccyx to the extent of IJ 

 centimetres. 



Dr. Mivart also exhibited a photograph belonging to Mr. A. .1 . 

 Tepper, F.E.C.S., showing a remarkable resemblance between 

 two arm-stump.s, one the result of an amputation, the otlier a 

 congenital defect in the child of a nurse who had attended the 

 patient whose arm was amputated. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On a Collection of dried Plants from the Southern Shan States, 

 Upper Burmah." By Brigadier-Gen. H. Collett, F.L.S., and W. 

 Betting Hemslev. F.E.S., A.L.S. 



